Re: [doc] Sad I couldn't make it to the NEC...

["mgutkowski@xxxx" <webmaster@xxxx>]

Ooh, I forgot - I have PERMANENTLY modified my headlight brackets - they
were very rusty so I cleaned them out and painted them with black
hammerite. Ditto my bonnet hinges which are silver, and usually anything
I'm taking apart that's gone rusty either gets replaced or painted
(there're increasing numbers of nuts and bolts on my car that are now shiny
silver that were probably supposed to be black originally). You can take
this "originality" thing too far - what I'm doing I see as good maintenance
(and the headlights brackets do look very nice in black - if only you could
see them :-)

Martin (now bored and experiencing withdrawl symptoms)

Original Message:
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From: Daniel Willis danielpwillis@xxxx
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:40:02 +0000
To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [doc] Sad I couldn't make it to the NEC...


Heh.. nicely said.

Mod away my friend... I would but I tend to "vent" on the Calibra.. a more 
"acceptable" car to modify in my opinion. 19 inch wheels don't fit the 
Delorean anyway... :o)

Stereo wise.. I with all you guys. Mine Craig works and is staying put..
the 
reason? I never drive the bloody thing so why bother. Again, the Calibra 
gets the "system".. it's my daily drive.

Exhaust wise.. hmm.. mine is stock again - I have a CAT bypass to fit but 
the rain won't ease off longer enough to do it.. but I don't see the new 
free flow as a "mod", more of a necessity! The stock system is awful and 
needs to be chucked.. had regs been different in '81 it may have been 
different anyway - remember the DeLorean was releases during an oil 
crisis...

As for my interest in the car.. well, it's different for everyone. If I'm 
honest, I can still remember seeing BTTF for the first time. I had no idea 
about the stainless then. I was too young. What was exciting was the rear.. 
the fans, the equipment.. it looked SO good. AND I was a lotus fan so it 
made sense. Of course the doors were (are/will always be) cool but it was 
the car's shape that I loved... when I first saw a stock delorean I thought 
"oh..." - I was young!
Over the years I've grown and my love for the car has too.. in stock form. 
Now the BTTF car is a nice novelty.

BIG disappointment was the engine.. damn that film has a lot to answer for! 
Hah...

I love my car.. but if it weren't stainless.. I'd still own it. If it
didn't 
have the doors.. don't know! (it'd probably have sizzor or butterfly if not 
gullwing anyway!)

Live the dream people, drive stainless!!!

Dan
Vin#5284


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